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Captain Dos Santos, as Commissioner for Portugal, and 
by Senhor d’Almeida as arbitrator. 
Grrmany.—Letters from Vienna of the 12th state 
that since Prince Metternich’s return, the arrival and 
departure of couriers has become even more frequent than 
it was before, and that the frequent conferences which the 
Prince holds with the French Ambassador leave no doubt 
that the object of the present important negotiations are 
Spanish affairs. Upon two questions it is said the prin- 
cipal Cabinets agree. No immediate or particular pro- 
posals will be made to the Spanish Government, but all 
exertions will be made to secure the hand of the Queen 
to a member of the Bourbon family, exclusive of the 
Orleans branch. The candidates, therefore, would be 
members of the families of Don Carlos or the King of 
Naples.—The Emperor of Russia left Berlin on the 19th 
for Warsaw; the Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe 
Weimar for Weimar; the Duke of Leuchtenberg for 
Stettin; and the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, 
with their daughter the Princess Eugenia, for Stockholm. 
—The King of Bavaria’s magnificent plan to form a union 
of the members of the German Confederation, for the 
purpose of contributing to the fund for rebuilding Cologne 
Cathedral, has been responded to, and it is now under- 
stood that the Emperor of Austria has offered 40,000 
florins a year until the work shall be completed.—Great 
preparations are making at Gratz for the reception of the 
naturalists who are to hold their annual meeting there in 
the course of this month. A room has been erected, in 
which 1000 persons may dine. The Archduke John will 
treat the naturalists with a Styrian féle. He has caused 
persons to come from all the provinces of Styria, who are 
to execute in their different costumes national dances and 
Songs. The governor will also offer to the scientific 
strangers a brilliant soirée in his gardens.—Prince Hohen- 
lohe, of miracle-working celebrity, but of whom nothing 
had been heard for some time, is stated, in a letter from 
Innspruck, to have performed some new miracles there 
during the last month. Among the persons stated to 
have been cured were the daughter of a Councillor of the 
Court of Appeal of the Tyrol, after a painful illness of 
three years, and a woman of fifty-five, who had been for 
Seven years afflicted with paralysis. 
Trary.—Accounts from the Frontier state that Count 
Radetsky, military governor of Venice, has received in- 
structions from Vienna to keep 4,000 men ready to march 
at a moment’s notice into any of the Italian States, as 
800n as their respective Governments should require and 
demand such assistance. The Bolognese insurgents have 
made an attempt to surprise the city of Ravenna, to arrest 
three cardinals, and to establish the centre of the opera. 
tions in that place. They had agreed to meet other con- 
Spirators at Imola, but the police discovered their inten- 
tions, and when the insurgents arrived before Imola they 
found the gates closed and the garrison under arms. A 
letter from Rome, of Sept ]4, in the Augsburg Gazette, 
contains the following :—‘‘ We have just received by ex- 
press information that the diligence (what diligence is not 
stated), and the dragoons who were escorting it, had been 
attacked by a band of 150 men, armed with English 
muskets. The dragoons were made prisoners. It is 
asserted that this band had suddenly attacked several posts 
of cavalry, and carried off their arms and their horses. In 
Consequence of this news, there was yesterday a Council 
of Cardinals. The Government is said to have sent off 
Immediately for Cesena several battalions of infantry.’’ 
rom Naples we learn that no instance of burning has 
lately taken place, and the streets, which were almost 
deserted by females, are again assuming that life and 
Noise so peculiar to this city. Sir Woodbine Parish, who 
has been in Naples since the sulphur question, for the 
Purpose of extending our commercial interest in the king- 
Om, has returned to England, having failed in inducing 
the Government to agree to anything beyond the sulphur 
Quties, which are already known and acted upon. 
Grercr.—A telegraphic despatch has reached Paris 
announcing that a revolution has at length broken out at 
Athens, The accounts of the proceedings of King Otho 
which have appeared from time to time will cause this 
News to be received without surprise. It appears that 
at 2 o'clock in the morning of the 15th a few musket-shots 
red in the air announced the assembiing of the people in 
the different quarters of Athens. Soon afterwards the 
inhabitants, accompanied by the entire garrison, marched 
towards the square of the palace crying, ‘‘ The Constitu- 
tion for ever!’ On reaching the palace the artillery, 
yivalry, and infantry, drew up under the windows of the 
Ing, in front of the palace, and the people having 
Stationed themselves in the rear, all in one voice demanded 
® constitution. The King appeared at a low window, and 
®ssured the people that he would take into consideration 
their demand and that of the army, after consulting with 
his Ministers, the Council of State, and the representa- 
tives of the foreign Powers. But the Commander 
Mictersi, having stepped forward, made known to his 
t ajesty that the Ministry was no longer Tecognised, and 
hat the Council of State was already deliberating on the 
est course to be adopted under existing circumstances, 
{document was soon afterwards presented to the King 
oi 8 deputation of the Council, composed of Messrs. 
Laduriotis, the President, G. Eynian, A. P. Mavromi- 
pei, jun., G. Psyles, and Anastasius Londos. Whilst 
ve Majesty was reading the propositions of the Council 
z State, the representatives of the foreign Powers pre- 
sited themselves at the Palace, and were told by the 
the ander that nobody could be admitted at that moment, 
© King being in fi with the deputation of the 
The latter came out two hours after- 
where they held along consultation with his Majesty, who 
shortly appeared on the balcony, surrounded by the new 
Ministers and Ambassadors, who had just been admitted, 
and was received with acclamation by the people. The 
cry of ‘Long live the Constitutional King’ resounded, 
together with that of ‘The Constitution for ever.’ The 
following Ministers entered immediately on the discharge 
of their functions. Messrs. André Metaxa, President of 
the Council, with the department of Foreign Affairs ; 
André Londos, Minister of War ; Canaris, for the Navy 
Department ; Rhigas Palamidis for the Interior, Mansolas 
for the Finance; Leon Melas, for Justice, and Michel 
Schinas, for Public Instruction and Ecclesiastical Affairs. 
The military revolution was directed, on the part of the 
regular Army, by the Colonel of Cavalry (Demetri 
Calergi), and on that of the irregular army by Colonel 
Macryany. At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the garrison, 
after defiling before the Palace, re-entered their quarters, 
preceded by their bands, amidst the acclamations of the 
people. An hour afterwards the city, in which order had 
not been an instant disturbed, resumed its customary 
aspect, the whole revolution having been accomplished 
successfully and without bloodshed, in about 12 hours. 
The students of the university joined the movement, and 
were remarkable for their patriotism and moderation. |Si- 
milar movements occurred at Chalcis, Corinth, and Nauplia. 
Letters from Athens of the 17th state, that all foreigners 
holding offices under Government were to be dismissed, 
including even M. Lemaitre and other Frenchmen employed 
in the administration of the National Bank. The chiefs 
of the movement had adopted every precaution for the 
safety of that establishment ; the Directors were before- 
hand informed of the hour at which the movement was to 
take place, and 12 trusty soldiers were sent thither during 
the night for its protection by M. Calergi. The revolution 
was effected without any violence. The Ministers were 
arrested in their houses, but liberated on the next morning. 
A Bavarian Aide-de-Camp of the King was also appre- 
hended, and confined in the barracks, where, however, he 
remained a prisoner only a few hours. It appears that 
the King yielded with bad grace, when he found that all 
resistance on his part would be unavailing. It was eleven 
o’clock when his obstinacy was subdued. ‘he military 
bands were then playing the “Marseillaise’? and the 
“ Parisienne,” which gave his Majesty cause to suppose 
that affairs might proceed to unpl ities. On 
CITY. 
Money Market, Friday.—Consols closed at 94 to 5 
for money, and 95 to % for account ; New Three-and-Half 
Bill, 182. a to 23 India Stock, 267 to9 ; Exchequer 
ills, +, Ols. to 638.5; 13d., 60s. to 62s. prem. ; Indi 
Bonds, 67s. to 69s. prem, ‘ pikes led 
SMetropolis and its Picinity. 
Dinner to Gen. Espartero.— On Tuesday a magnificent 
banquet was given at the Mansion-house, as a mark of 
sympathy with General Espartero on his arrival in this 
country. Nearly three hundred sat down to dinner. The 
hall was decorated in the usual manner. There was a 
meeting of the Council in one of the rooms of the Man- 
sion-house previous to the dinner, when the Lord Mayor 
read the resolutions of the Common Council, which have 
already been noticed in this Paper, and to which Gen. 
Espartero returned a suitable reply: After dinner, the 
usual loyal toasts having been given, the Lord Mayor pro- 
posed the health of his Highness the Duke of Victory, 
expressing his belief that “if we do not see Espartero 
again at the head of affairs, we shall at least see his prin- 
ciples in the ascendant.” The toast was received with 
loud cheering, after which the Duke of Victory rose and 
addressed the assembly in Spanish. Having been listened 
to with profound attention, the Lord Mayor, at the con- 
clusion of his speech, said that as the Duke of Victory 
was not sufficiently acquainted with English to deliver his 
address in our language, he had put a translation of his 
remarks into his hands, which he begged to read, His 
Lordship then read the following address :—‘* My Lord 
Mayor and Gentlemen—The generous and hospitable 
reception I have met with from the British people, their 
Queen and Government, will ever be to me a source of 
most grateful recollection. The British nation—the high- 
minded and liberal British people—have thoroughly under- 
stood the feelings that have ever guided the actions of him 
who has now the honour of addressing you, and who 
having hoisted the constitutional flag of his country, 
carried it victoriously, until finally the enemies of liberty 
disappeared. Solemnly elected Regent of Spain 
the national will, I was determined to govern the king- 
dom within the law ; to preserve the law, and allow no 
gine to transgress the law. The enemies of the liberty and 
the 16th King Otho took his customary airing, and was 
saluted, as he passed along the streets, with cries from the 
people and soldiers of ‘‘ Long live the Constitutional 
King!’’ An exception had been made in the decree of 
exclusion against foreigners in favour of the old Philhel- 
lenes who held office under the Government. The 
National Assembly will be convoked within 30 days from 
the date of the revolution, to draw up the new Constitu- 
tion in conjunction with the King. 
Turxry.—By the Levant mail we have advices from 
Constantinople to the 8th inst. The Berat had been sent 
for the investiture of Prince Alexander Georgiewitsch, and 
was published in due form at Belgrade on the 14th inst, 
The greatest activity prevailed in the military depart- 
ments of the Porte,and on the 6th an Imperial haz, 
incorporating the militia with the regular army durin 
a period of five years, had been proclaimed with great 
pomp in presence of the Sultan, the Ministers, and the 
troops of the garrison. Redschid Pasha, President of 
the Military Council, had been appointed Seraskier 
or General-in-chief of the troops of Rumelia, with the 
title of Muschir, and was to reside at Adrianople, 
The Porte appeared to be inclined to give France every 
satisfaction for the insult offered to her consul at Jerusa- 
lem. Before Baron de Bourquenay had made any com- 
munication on the subject to the Divan, the Sultan had 
anticipated him, by enjoining the authorities of Syria and 
Jerusalem to punish the parties who had committed the 
outrage with exemplary justice. Prince Bibesco, the new 
Couneil of State. 
ards with the consent of the King. The new Minist 
Tecommended by the Council then repaired to the Palace, 
Hospodar of Wallachia, accompanied by his younger 
brother and a number of Boyards, had arrived at Constan- 
tinople. The Sultan had sent his portrait to King Louis 
Philippe by the French steamer. A provisional govern- 
ment has tablished in the ins of the 
Nestorians. Zenail Bey, a well known Kurdish marauder, 
has been named governor, and has established himself in 
a new house built by Dr. Grant, in Tujari, for the pur- 
poses of the American mission. 
Eeyrt.—The last French packet has brought here 
Arnim Bey, first interpreter to the Pacha, on his return 
from his mission to Paris. Accountants to be employed 
in the regulation of the accounts of the Egyptian govern. 
ment have accompanied him from Paris. The Pacha is 
expected to return shortly to Cairo, and the alarms which 
had prevailed of a too abundant inundation have subsided. 
Up to the 6th inst. no Indian mail had been signalised as 
having arrived at Suez, and moreover, there was no 
steamer at Alexandria to bring the mail on should it 
chance to arrive before the Oriental, which left Malta for 
Alexandria on the evening of the 13th, 
New Sovrn Wa.es.—Sydney papers to the Ist June 
have come to hand. The colony was in all the bustle of 
the first general election of a legislature under the consti- 
tution lately conceded, and then first to be put in force. 
The quarterly returns of revenue for the three months 
ending with March last, published there, show a decrease 
of 2,551/., as compared with the corresponding quarter 
of 1842; the returns for 1843 being 77,079/. against 
80,5302. for 1842. Stock had been selling at very low 
prices in Western Australia. Sheep were sold by the 
importers at lls. a head; and cows at from 65s. to 10J, 
each. Colonial bred cows and heifers were sold at Perth 
at an average price of 9/. per head. 
P of my country and of the constitutional 
throne of my Queen are indebted for their momentary 
triumph to that religious respect which I have ever shown 
to the fundamental law of the state. But I shall never 
on that account regret that such has been my conduct ; 
for I am convinced such is the only conduct a constitu. 
tional Regent ought to follow. Thus it was my inten- 
tion, when the time fixed by the constitution for Isabella 
II. commencing the exercise of her constitutional autho- 
rity should arrive, that she should find herself at the head 
of a flourishing and great kingdom; quiet within, re- 
spected without, and progressing in that prosperity to 
which it is entitled by its position, climate, and the cha- 
racter of its people. I have asserted it a hundred times, 
and it is with satisfaction I now repeat it here—to 
secure and consolidate the public and civil liberty of my 
country ; to preserve intact the constitutional throne of 
Isabella the Second, to deliver into her hands the autho- 
rity with which I was entrusted precisely in the manner 
determined by the law, and then to retire into private life, 
and become once more a private citizen—such were ever 
my wisk my di inati An evil destiny has 
prevented the fulfilment of my intentions, and I have 
been obliged to retire from my country; but in the midst 
of my misfortunes it is a great consolation to have met 
with so generous a reception in this, the classic soil of 
constitutional liberty, whence I offer the most fervent vows 
for the happiness of my country. And wherever fate may 
lead me, I shall always have the most lively recollection 
of the sympathy shown me by the British people, and more 
particularly by the City of London, the prosperity of 
which I now beg leave to offer as a toast.” Vehement 
cheering followed the conclusion of this speech. The 
health of Gen. Van Halen and the other officers of Espar- 
tero’s suite, was then given and acknowledged by that 
General. Viscount Canning returned thanks for the House 
of Peers, and expressed his hope that, whatever future 
events may bring about, when Gen. Espartero and his 
countrymen, here and at home, recalled the memory of 
the reception which had been given them, they will feel 
that it was given to a man who filled a station the high- 
est to which a subject can be called, with a scrupulous 
honesty as regards the interests of his country, and with 
unflinching fidelity to his young Queen. Mr. Ward 
acknowledged the toast of the House of Commons, and 
said that they came there to honour one who had been 
most undeservedly driven from the highest station in hig 
own country, and who would, in all probability, still fill it 
if it were not for foreign interference. That Spain might 
be again restored to constitutional liberty, through the 
instrumentality of Espartero, was a wish in which every 
man in this country heartily joined, be he Whig, Tory 
or Radical. The Lord Mayor then gave The Mem. 
bers for the City,’’ praised the late Sir M. Wood for his 
Biman moe cera Ae that Lord J. Rus- 
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tero, but that he could not conven} Rb pista 
where he was at present residing. 
General Nogueras.—In connection with the banquet 
to Gen. Espartero we may notice a correspondence which 
has appeared in the daily papers on the part taken by 
en. Nogueras, one of the ex-Regent’s suite, in the 
murder of Gen. Cabrera’s mother during the contest with 
Don Carlos. On the first announcement of the Lord 
Mayor's intention to give this banquet, Lord Ranelagh 
